Agee is a former CIA officer who exposed the spy agency’s clandestine operations in Latin America from 1960 to 1968 in his own book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, published in 1975.

A political activist, Galarza was one of an estimated 120 Ecuadorans who were imprisoned and interrogated by the government with the assistance of CIA operatives. The spy agency claimed that Galarza was a guerilla in the Dominican Republic, an accusation he has long denied.

Ecuador’s foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño, has said his agency printed the authors’ book, in both English and Spanish, to not only educate people about previous CIA schemes, but current ones.

“These secret policies continue in Latin America today,” Patiño said, according to TeleSur. “Nothing that Philip Agee denounced as CIA actions in the past have been discarded by the espionage seen in the present.”

Agee served in Ecuador from 1960 to 1963, during which time the CIA plotted to overthrow two presidents. The agency also went so far as to spy on local political organizations and plant bombs in front of churches and other locations to frame leftist groups, according to Agee.

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Juan Palomino
2 years ago

If you ever have dinner with a CIA operative in service, or Special Force member with more than two secret operations in his bag, you will realize that behind the pleasant masquerade is hidden a almost human being that had disposed of any other vestige
of a God creation. Between drugs, armaments, dirty sex and money, all young people fell in the trap of super power, super man, super race. They convert to killer/patriotic criminals. Like the one in " The Davinci Code" JP